1. Chapter 4: A Place to Live

2. Imagine you are soaring high above the earth on a clear night
Imagine you are soaring high above the earth on a clear night. What do you see below you?

3. This map shows you the human-made lights which are highlighted by developed or populated areas of the Earths surface.

4. What patterns do you see?

5. Can you identify the parts of the world that are the most populated?

6. Some areas are completely dark; no one lives there
Some areas are completely dark; no one lives there. Others are brightly lit; large numbers of people live in these places. Still other areas show isolated dots of light, indicating a scattering of communities.
Take a closer look at Canada and the United States. What factors have influenced people, especially people here in Atlantic Canada, to settle where they have?

7. World Population

8. Population Patterns
The population of Atlantic Canada is unevenly distributed across the four provinces.
Where people live close together in a given area, the population is dense, crowded, or high; where there are only a few people in an area of a similar size, the population is sparse or low.

9. Activity
High or Low?

10. Activity: High or Low? Collect your supplies Count your beans
One partner needs to get the paper
One partner needs to get the bean baggie
Count your beans
You should have a total of 40
Place all of your beans on the large square
Is the bean population high (dense)or low (sparse)?
Place all of your beans on the small square
Is the bean population high (dense) or low (sparse)?
Put your beans back into the bag.

11. Population Patterns
Population Density – how many people living on a given area of land. It’s found by dividing the population by the area of a region.

12. Population ÷ Area = Population Density

13. Activity Calculating Population Density
(You need a ruler and a calculator for this one)

14. Activity: Calculating Population Density
Part 1:
Count out 20 beans
Find the area of the biggest square
Area = length x width
Place the 20 beans on the biggest square
Calculate the population density
PD = population ÷ area

15. Activity: Calculating Population Density
Part 2:
Count out 20 beans
Find the area of the smallest square
Area = length x width
Place 20 beans on the smallest square
Calculate the population density
PD = population ÷ area

16. Activity: Calculating Population Density
Answers
The big square has a population density of 0.15?
The little square has a population density of 0.73

17. Just because a region has a large population, does not mean it has a high population density.

18. Population – High/Low Density
Homework Assignment
Population – High/Low Density

19. Population Patterns

20. When describing the population of an area, both density and distribution must be considered.
Population Distribution – where the population is located.

21. Where do people live?

22. The Rural-Urban Mix
Match the following labels to the diagrams: Clustered, compact, loose knit, linear

23. The Rural-Urban Mix Compact Linear Clustered Loose knit
Match the following labels to the diagrams: Clustered, compact, loose knit, linear

24. Atlantic Canadians live mostly in relatively small settlements scattered across the region. We call these rural areas.
Rural Areas:
sparsely settled areas in the countryside

25. In some areas, however, there is a cluster with higher population density. These areas are called urban centres. Large urban centres are also known as cities.
Urban Centres:
concentrations of people living in one area. Must have at least 1000 people and a population density of 400 or more persons/km2.

26. = population of 10 million or more
Megacity
= population of 10 million or more

27. Tokyo, Japan is the world’s largest megacity

28. Tokyo, Japan is the world’s largest megacity

29. Is Sussex an urban center or a rural area?

30. Rural Push – conditions such as unemployment which force people to leave the countryside.
Urban Pull – conditions that attract people to cities.

31. Write 3 of these examples in your notes for push and pull

32. Unemployment
Minimum wage
Limited higher education
Lack of health services
Lack of facilities (shopping malls, movie theatres, restaurants, amusement parks, etc.)
Lack of privacy
Employment
Higher incomes
More housing options
Better education (colleges or university)
Better healthcare (specialized care)
Urban facilities (shopping malls, amusement parks, restaurants, etc.)

34. Outmigration – movement away from an area.
As we’ve seen, people move from one area to another for many reasons. While many stay within the same province or region, some move to other parts of Canada or even other parts of the world. We call this outmigration.
Outmigration – movement away from an area.

35. Much of the outmigration from the Atlantic Provinces is to other parts of Canada, especially the prairie provinces, but some is to other countries.
Boston, South-East Asia, and Japan have all attracted Atlantic Canadians in recent years.

36. Population Patterns You will need page 50 from the textbook for this.
Assignment
Population Patterns
You will need page 50 from the textbook for this.

37. The Newfie Bullet

38. The “Newfie Bullet,” which actually moved quite slowly, was a passenger train that operated in the 1890s until the late 1960s.

39. The train was very important to Newfoundland for a number of reasons
The train was very important to Newfoundland for a number of reasons. First, the Newfie Bullet helped open up the interior of the island. Costal communities were now able to be accessed by land.

41. Secondly, the train helped improve the economic conditions of those who lived there.

42. People in rural areas produced food and raw materials for people living in larger centers. The goods were now shipped via train and reached a larger market.
People in towns and cities, in return, produced finished goods for people in rural areas.

43. It was also important because it allowed people to move more readily from rural areas to cities and towns and even off the island. People were able to travel to places that were inaccessible to them before.

45. The Newfie Bullet?

48. The Outmigration Blues